Editor for Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
Sara Zanotta is a research fellow in the ERC CoG REDMIX “Unpacking Mixedness for an Inclusive History of the Red Sea, 1800s-2000s” at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin. She holds a PhD in Asian History from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, Italy. Her PhD thesis examined the political activism of Iranian communities abroad (in Asia, Europe, and North-East Africa) between the 1850s and the 1910s.
During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting PhD student at the Central European University in Vienna, at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the University of Bamberg, and at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from
the University of Milan, where she is a teaching assistant of History and Institutions of Muslim Countries.
She is also the deputy chief of the editorial staff of the academic journal “Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società” and a member of the research unit of Pavia of the research project “Arms, Beads and Cloth. African Consumers and the 19th -century Global Economy”.
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